Rodriguez’s daughter had a signed form approving the showing of PG movies, Barbee said.īarbee said she had already submitted her resignation from the school the week before the incident occurred due to “politics and the fear of not being able to be who you are” in the public school system. The teacher has also pushed back on Rodriguez’s insistence that the individual movie needed to be approved, telling CNN in an earlier interview that there was no protocol in place for clearing specific movies. Jenna Barbee addressed the issue at a Hernando County school board meeting last week. These are common conversations that I have to tell my students, ‘Woah there. “This door that she’s talking about, it’s been open. “These students are talking about things way beyond this (movie),” Barbee said. But allowing movies such as this assist teachers in opening a door, and please hear me, they assist teachers in opening a door for conversations that have no place in our classrooms,” Rodriguez said at a May 9 school board meeting.īut Barbee told CNN her students are already discussing such topics on their own. “It is not a teacher’s job to impose their beliefs upon a child: religious, sexual orientation, gender identity, any of the above. The parent, school board member Shannon Rodriguez, has said that Barbee should have gotten the specific movie approved by school administration and said the teacher is “playing the victim.” The parent who reported her, who is also a member of the Hernando County School District Board, complained to the principal that the movie is not appropriate for students, according to Karen Jordan, spokesperson for Hernando County Schools. Though Barbee says the students’ parents had previously signed permission slips allowing their children to watch PG-rated movies, one parent complained and reported the teacher to the state Department of Education after “Strange World” was shown. The Disney film tells the story of a family of explorers and features a gay character. “I had no idea whatsoever that this was such a big deal.”īarbee says she played the 2022 animated Disney movie “Strange World” to a classroom of fifth graders while their peers were finishing some standardized testing. “I just found out today that they increased it to my level,” the fifth-grade teacher, Jenna Barbee told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota Monday night. Andrew West/The News-Press/USA Today Networkįlorida bans teaching of gender identity and sexual orientation through 12th grade More than 150 people marched down 5th Avenue holding signs and chanting slogans during the dinner rush. Signs displayed at protest and march in Naples on Friday, Maagainst several anti-LGBT Florida House bills.
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